Mr. Colbert, Chickasaw-Creek, is the President and CEO of Native American Bank headquartered in Denver, Colorado with a branch in Browning, Montana and loan production offices in Alaska and Montana.

Prior to taking the leadership position at NAB he was Executive Vice President at Bank2 in Oklahoma, a bank Mr. Colbert founded for the Chickasaw Nation.  Mr. Colbert is also the founder of the North American Native Bankers Association (“NANBA”) and serves as the association’s President.

 He has a long and extensive background in banking and Indian finance issues. Mr. Colbert’s special expertise is as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of independent, community banks. His expertise covers asset quality, bank investments, interest rate risk management, Community Reinvestment Act, bank holding company issues, marketing and tribal/minority banking opportunities. Mr. Colbert has been a speaker on banking issues at conferences sponsored by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Oklahoma Bankers Association, the American Bankers Association and numerous Indian economic development conferences.

He began his banking career as a bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Mr. Colbert has served as a bank president of a community bank owned by a group of individual Indians in eastern Oklahoma and was also a commercial lending officer for Bank of Oklahoma, the largest bank in Oklahoma. He was also head of the credit programs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC. Mr. Colbert has also served as tribal administrator for a 25,000-member tribe in Oklahoma as well as a board member and chief operating officer of a tribally owned bank.

Mr. Colbert received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in management and marketing from the University of Oklahoma and earned a Masters degree in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University and a Masters Degree in Organizational Development from Johns Hopkins University.

During 2006, Mr Colbert was appointed by the White House to the Community Development Advisory Board of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, a division of the U.S. Treasury. Mr. Colbert also serves on the board of directors of First Nations Oweesta Corporation; the National Advisory Board of Native American Capital, LP; the Denver Indian Family Resource Center; Oaks Indian Mission School and Native American Bank, N.A.